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Year Book 2015: Progress of Marine Engineering Technology in the year 2014
welding12). Fig.9.1.3. shows its overview. By controlling the polarity of the leading GMAW electrode and
the trailing plasma welding electrode, the weld bead results in a wide and low smooth surface profile.
Moreover, offsetting the trailing plasma welding electrode is effective on the smoothening the weld toe
profile on the offset side. These mitigates the stress concentration at weld toe and exhibits the fatigue
strength approximately twice as much as that of conventional CO2 gas shielded arc welding.
The demonstration test of Laser-Arc hybrid welding system was held by Namura shipbuilding Co., Ltd.
13). Fig.9.1.4 shows its overview. This is the one of the tests introducing the new strain-less high speed
welding system for building merchant vessels mainly made of thick steel plates. The test was carried out
using a 5m length member and got good bead but there was a problem with grooving accurately. More
tests are going to be continued toward practical use.
IHI Corporation has been trying to build a new system for easy real time sharing of information about
work instructing and work performance by using tablet personal computers in factories or at installation
site instead of instruction documents or performance reports14). The user environment for using tablet
PCs is to be constructed by creating on screen an Excel-based common format sheet for easy date
input/output. At present in welding yards of IHI Corporation work performances are gathered through
tablet PCs in real time. This method makes it easy to gather and tabulate work progresses and then
makes it possible to understand the situation, to analyze the cause of delay and to take countermeasures
in a short time. Conventionally when troubles occurred in yards staffs went to the site and made
accident reports. Then the repots were delivered or circulated among the parties concerned. This method
took a long time to share information, to analyze the cause and to take countermeasures. But now the
system has been built that a comment written on site about the accident with a picture taken by a
Tablet PC's camera is mailed to the party and the system has enabled quick sharing, analyzing and
coping.
There are many newly developed technologies for maintenance of steel production plants or ocean rigs,
some of them mentioned below will be utilized for outfitting and maintenance of ships in future. The
non-overhaul valve inspection and diagnostic system using ultrasonic technique named PASS15) , the
piping inspection system using infrared thermography16), the internal welded pipe inspection device
comprising a self-propelled vehicle named WeldChecker17), the thickness measuring instrument using
eddy current named PEC18). Fig.9.1.5 shows PASS (Phased Array Sequence Scanning) kit and its
inspection data image, and Fig.9.1.6 shows the overview of WeldChecker.
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Year Book 2015: Progress of Marine Engineering Technology in the year 2014
Year Book 2015: Progress of Marine Engineering Technology in the year 2014
Year Book 2015: Progress of Marine Engineering Technology in the year 2014
Year Book 2015: Progress of Marine Engineering Technology in the year 2014
Fig.9.2.7 shows the overview of the GUARDIAN Guardian's anti-piracy barrier system46),47). The
GUARDIAN is composed of plastic barriers made from a polymer with a high level of UV protection,
resistant to a wide range of chemicals and oils etc, and will remain robust over the high temperature
range. The GUARDIAN profile makes it virtually impossible for pirates to climb over onto deck. A
single unit or section can be removed or refitted in minutes, for operations such as mooring or vessel
maintenance. Furthermore it can be easily swapped between vessels.
Norsafe AS has designed the Maxima-120 a new totally enclosed lifeboat (TELB) which is the largest
one in its history and the GES-21 a new TELB which takes up less deck space than other lifeboat
davits49),50). The Maxima-120 is a 12m-long lifeboat with a capacity of 150 persons. It also has features
like integrated longitudinal double stiffeners in the hull for added strength and possibilities for large
engines and bow thrusters. Overviews of these boats are shown in Fig.9.2.8 (a) and (b) respectively.
Norsafe has opened two new training centers in Norway and Greece49). The center in Greece is focusing
on training for ships crew and the other center in Norway on the free-fall type lifeboat training for
offshore rig's crew. In addition the latter has a test tower and they can conduct free-fall tests without
any assistance from crane ships. Fig.9.2.8(c) shows its overview49).
(a) Maxima-120
(b) GES21
Fig 9.2.8 Norsafe new boats and the test tower49) ,50)
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